EUROPE

21 June – Belfast, Northern Ireland
A press photographer was shot in the leg during street violence in which petrol bombs, fireworks, bottles and bricks were thrown at police. The riots are the culmination of recent antagonism between loyalists and republican groups. Republican dissidents were blamed for the gunshots.

28 June – Athens, Greece
At least 46 people were injured during two days of violent protests across the city in which riot police clashed with demonstrators. The protests came as politicians prepared to vote in harsh austerity measures to secure the country’s economic future.

2 June – Derry, Northern Ireland
Loyalist marchers clashed with nationalist residents during the first days of the marching season. Homes in the Catholic Short Strand district were attacked and riot police were called to break up street battles.

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MIDDLE EAST & AFPAK

9 June – Landi Kotal, Pakistan
A Nato oil tanker was destroyed in an explosion caused by an improvised explosive device. No casualties were reported in the incident, but the Pakistan-Afghan border highway was subsequently closed, resulting in a suspension of supplies to Nato forces in Afghanistan.

25 June – Logar, Afghanistan
A suicide car bomber killed at least 35 people and wounded 53 when he drove his explosive-packed vehicle into the wall of a small clinic. The building collapsed on women and children who had been waiting for treatment. The Taliban denied it was behind the attack.

28 June – Kabul, Afghanistan
At least 21 people were killed and 18 injured during a militant attack on a luxury hotel. Nine militants equipped with suicide vests and light arms targeted the Intercontinental Hotel, killing ten civilians and two policemen. All nine militants died in the attack.

2 July – Kabul, Afghanistan
A mortar mine fi red from an unknown location injured three policemen near a police checkpoint close to the parliament building. No group has yet claimed responsibility, but Taliban militants are suspected.

13 July – Wardak, Afghanistan
A large suicide truck bomb exploded outside an American base, wounding 22 Coalition troops and four Afghan civilians. More than 900kg of explosive are thought to have been used in the attack.

14 July – Kandahar, Afghanistan
Three people were killed and 13 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a device hidden inside his turban at a memorial reception for President Hamid Karzai’s murdered half brother. It is not yet known how the bomber was able to enter the high security event.

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AFRICA

11 June – Mogadishu, Somalia
Somalia’s interior minister was killed in a suicide bombing at his home, amid violent demonstrations across the city. Abdishakur Sheik Hassan died from shrapnel injuries after the female bomber detonated her device.

16 June – Abuja, Nigeria
At least fi ve people were killed and 11 injured in a suicide bombing on the capital’s police headquarters. The bomber exploded the device in the car park outside the headquarters building. The Islamist Boko Harem sect claimed responsibility for the attack.

17 June – Damboa, Nigeria
Four children were killed and two injured in a bomb explosion in a housing compound. The children had been playing near an unmarked polythene package, which exploded at exactly
1pm. Members of the Boko Harem sect were blamed for planting the device.

3 July – Maiduguri, Nigeria
Ten people were killed and nine injured when a bomb exploded in a wine shop in popular market. A suspect was seen leaving the shop shortly before the device exploded.

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ASIA

24 June – Mandalay, Myanmar
Three bombs exploded in cities across the country in a seemingly co-ordinated attack by ethnic minority rebels. Two people were injured and building and vehicles damaged by blasts in Mandalay, Pyin Oo Lwin and the capital Naypyidaw. Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is preparing a political tour of the country.

1 July – Narathiwat, Thailand
Two people were killed and 13 injured in three separate roadside bomb explosions. The first bomb killed two irrigation workers and wounded five others, while a second about 1km away wounded a soldier. A bomb disposal offi cer was injured while trying to disarm the third.

6 July – Sopore, India
At least six police offi cers were injured in a militant attack on a police station. Armed men fi red a rifl e grenade into the police station, and then triggered an IED hidden near the main door as officers emerged.

11 July – Assam, India
An improvised explosive device explosion derailed a busy passenger train, injuring at least 100 passengers. The engine and eight carriages of the Guwahati-Puri Express left the tracks and overturned. No group has yet claimed responsibility.

12 July – Mindanao, Indonesia
A man was killed in an explosion at a school during a lesson in which students are alleged to have been taught how to make explosives. According to reports, the 30-year-old victim was demonstrating bomb-making techniques when a device accidentally exploded. Police were prevented from entering the school grounds after the incident.

13 July – Mumbai, India
At least 18 people were killed and 131 injured when three bombs exploded within ten minutes of each other in a co-ordinated attack. The timed explosives detonated in the city’s gold, diamond and jewellery centres. Radical Islamic group Indian Mujahideen (IM) is thought responsible.

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NORTH AMERICA

No significant incidents to report

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CENTRAL AMERICA

No significant incidents to report

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LATIN AMERICA

No significant incidents to report

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